The aspects of marketing surrounding a brand, like advertising, sales promotion and distribution, can mislead and confuse brand builders. Branding Simplified: Plans to Payoffs aims to dispel the cloud of these peripheral issues and clarify the foundations on which strong brands are built, with a distinct focus on the higher-order connect between the prospects and the brands.
With the help of India-based examples and illustrations, the book analyses why brands have become indispensable in our lives. It communicates the key concepts of branding and branding strategy with an optimum degree of lucidity.
The book focuses on the following important branding challenges:
” Brand meaning
” Brand vision
” Brand transformation
” Brand value in higher orbits
” Brand strategy
” Leveraging the brand
” Brand adjustments
The book will be immensely helpful to professionals in the fields of marketing, advertising, consulting, strategy, and so on, and to entrepreneurs. Teachers and students of business management, advertising and branding will find it an incisive and exhaustive text on brand-building and brand management.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Fantastic book, light read and enjoyable — Miss Hajrija Dergic ― drupal Published On: 2020-02-18
I do not run the branding modules on the course, but I will be recommending this book to the tutors that do. It does what it says on the cover, with efficiency and verve. — Mr Andy Frith ―
drupal Published On: 2013-11-13
Its an interesting book specially by the examples and case reflection analysis. The author present us with a deep approach to current problems and I underline the social network proposals as very accurate and usefull. — Professor Alvaro Dias ―
drupal Published On: 2013-04-19
From the Back Cover
The aspects of marketing surrounding a brand, like advertising, sales promotion and distribution, can mislead and confuse brand builders. This title aims to dispel the cloud of these peripheral issues and clarify the foundations on which strong brands are built, with a focus on the higher-order connect between the prospects and the brands.
About the Author
Harsh V Verma is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi, where he teaches courses like Marketing Management, Consumer Behaviour, Marketing of Services and Brand Management. He has taught Services Marketing elective at the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow for several years. He is actively involved in training executives of both Indian companies and MNCs in the marketing area. Some of the companies for which he has conducted training include Nestle, BSNL, Siemens, GAIL, State Bank of India, Indian Oil Corporation, Taj Hotels and TATA Motors. His article ‘Packaging: A Magic Tool for the Marketer’ was reprinted in the World’s Executive Digest as one of the best management articles worldwide. He has published books like Brand Management and Marketing of Services: Strategies for Success. His book Marketing of Services: Strategies for Success was among the first few in the area of services marketing and it won the DMA Escorts Book of the Year Award in 1993.